The JioPhone 2 is a
feature phone
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* Feature (computer vision), could be an edge, corner or blob
* Feature (machine learning), in statistics: individual measurable properties of the phenome ...
marketed by
Jio
Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (d/b/a Jio) is an Indian telecommunications company and a subsidiary of Jio Platforms, headquartered in Navi Mumbai. It operates a national LTE (telecommunication), LTE network with coverage across all 22 telecom ...
which runs the
KaiOS
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operating system. The successor to the original
JioPhone, it was announced on 5 July 2018 during
Reliance Industries
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'
annual general meeting
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These organizations include membership associations and companies with shareholders.
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of that year and released in August 2018.
Specifications
The JioPhone 2 has a 2.4-inch
TFT display
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with a resolution of
320 × 240, a 2-
megapixel
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rear camera and a 0.3-megapixel front camera.
It comes with 512 MB of RAM and 4 GB of internal storage, expandable with a
microSD
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card with storage of up to 128 GB,
and support for 4G LTE,
Wi-Fi
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,
Bluetooth
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and
NFC
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* Near-field communication, a set of communication protocols for electronic devices
* National Football Conference, part of US National Football League
NFC may also refer to:
Psychology
* Need for cognition, in psychol ...
.
Its processor is a 1 GHz dual-core
Spreadtrum and its battery is removable and has a capacity of 2000
mAh
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The JioPhone 2 runs the KaiOS operating system which includes support for
WhatsApp
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,
Facebook
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and
YouTube
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.
References
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Jio
KaiOS phones
Mobile phones with user-replaceable battery
Mobile phones introduced in 2018